The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen ⓘ) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe).

2019年1月1日 · Though it was destroyed in 1940, the ruins of St Michael's are still a Coventry landmark - look back on this pictures from its heyday at the turn of the century. The tomb of Julian Nethermyl...

2019年8月14日 · The preserved ruined chancel with the Altar of Reconciliation built from the cathedral’s bombed remains. The words ‘Father Forgive’ were inscribed in 1948. © Roger Davies. In the days after the bombing two charred roof beams that had fallen in the shape of a cross were discovered by the cathedral stone mason.

Coventry Cathedral is most famously known for being bombed during WW2, which left Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre in ruins.

2012年10月2日 · The truth about the bombing of Coventry is very different. On 12 November 1940, Enigma decrypts made it clear that a major German bombing raid was imminent. Its code name, Moonlight Sonata, had been read in the decrypts. But the decrypts gave no clue as to the destination of the German bombers.

This St Michael's Cathedral now stands ruined, bombed almost to destruction during the Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 by the German Luftwaffe. Only the tower, spire, the outer wall and the bronze effigy and tomb of its first bishop, Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs, survived.

Codenamed 'Moonlight Sonata', the raid lasted for 11 hours and involved nearly 500 Luftwaffe bombers, gathered from airfields all over occupied Europe. The aim was to knock out Coventry as a...

Several of England’s historic cathedrals were damaged in bombing raids during the Second World War. None suffered so terribly as the Cathedral Church of St Michael in Coventry. An elevated view of the Parish Church of St Michael, before it became Coventry Cathedral in 1918. Source: Historic England Archive. AL0197/009/01.

2010年11月12日 · It's 70 years since Germany launched one of the most devastating bombing raids of World War II, on Coventry. But did Winston Churchill have prior warning of the attack?

2023年7月16日 · Other pictures show hundreds of concrete piles being driven to form the cathedral's foundations, and pre-war streets already being cleared under plans to modernise the city, before German...